With the scientific and integrated urban-rural development traditional urban planning education is obviously in the need of reform. As a core theory course, the content of urban planning principle expands fast and the knowledge becomes more difficult. During the past teaching practice, there were some problems that the teaching group was relatively small; the course was lack of discussion and exploration; the teaching was lack of innovation. To meet the requirements of excellent course construction, the teaching reform includes adjusting of the course frame, teaching aim and content, enlarging teaching group by trans-subject, combination of teaching and research exploration, and keeping up with the advanced foreign education practice. The paper points out that in the following stages of teaching reform, we should coordinate with other courses related through collaborative teaching methods, use research type teaching methods to adapt the transformation development in the professional area, establish the participation type teaching in the bilingual teaching environment.